ghosty wrote:mr_debauch wrote:well me personally, I use the turntable and record into the mpc... the turntable goes into a kaoss pad 2 because of the phono preamp and sometimes i use the low pass filter to get rid of static... then I adjust the start and end points of the samples.
I dont get why anyone would go through the ten hour process of recording, chopping, editing, tweaking, eqing, and all that in a DAW just to put those sounds on the card reader and load them up on the mpc... is that done for youtube videos or something? cause really you made the track on the computer and may as well hooked your mpc up via midi to pad them out on your computer
It is better to eq, effect, compress samples first. This prevents trying to shoot a moving target. Your now building paterns without the guess work. As for chopping in a daw, it makes more sence. You can only view the transients so close on the mpc. i strive to do what other people are not doing. The long way is always the short way in the end.I use recycle for example. The ability to zoom all the way to the 0db of the transient start and stops which eliminates the "pop". You can the dither and load only what you need to use into the ram of the mpc. I understand that some people fully produce musicon there mpcs and only eq in a daw. That fine and there is a nitch in the market for that sound. The mpc is also a very powerfull tool if used as a sequencer for paterns, that are finialized in a daw . Some like and want underground, some like and want mainstream.
Btw good point for new people reading. Understanding what kind of music you want to make and the building blocks for it will help you develop your craft to the best of your potential.
yeah I make music on both the mpc and the computer.... but no way am I about to fully edit and truncate.. mix, master, and completely shape a sample on the computer... and then load it into an mpc via USB, card, or what ever so I can look cool banging those perfectly chopped and edited loops out on the mpc... you just did all the work on the DAW and dont even need the mpc. why even own it at that point. you aren't using the AD/DA converters that the series is known for, you aren't chopping with the machine which gives you that desired style... in fact you aren't getting a single characteristic the mpc series can offer by doing that... however you are gaining 10 times more work by the back and forthing of samples alone.
I like making beats that have mpc bits and DAW bits... it usually involves me making parts on the mpc and then adding stuff in the DAW. But really, when I am listening to records... that table is going into the mpc and I am cutting a second here and 2 seconds there... and the mpc is perfect for that. sure I sometimes edit those patterns and sequences later... add effects and stuff like that... you know what I mean.
